Price tag



April 26, 1932. F. w. LAENCHER PRICE TAG Filed Nov. 6, 1950 INVENTORfieoez/b/ W Zoe/fiber BY n's ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 26, 1932 UNITEDSTATES, PA-TENTOFFICE;

FREDERICK W. LAENCHER, F ELMHURST, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO A. KIMYBALLCOM- PANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK v PRICE TAGOriginal application filed March 13, 1929, Serial No. 346,538. Dividedand this application filed November 6, 1930.

This invention relates to price tags, and has for an object theprovision of improvements in this art.

The nature and object of the invention will be best understood byreference to a specific embodiment of the invention which will now bedescribed, this embodiment being also illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in

which, the figure is a perspective view of a gang strip of price tagsembodying the invention.

This application is filedas a division of Laencher application, SerialNo. 346,538, filed March 13, 1929, entitled Tickets and apparalfij tusfor printing them. The said application describes a machine for printingand "severing individual tags from a gang strip such as illustratedherein, and as explained in the said application, the said stripcooperates 2 functionally with the feed mechanism in order to secureproper intermittent feed of individual tag lengths. The said gang stripmay also cooperate functionally with the feed mechanism of other typesof printing and severing machines, such, for example, as thatillustrated in Laencher application, Serial N 0. 451,222, filed May 10,1930, entitled Printing apparatus. 7

The said gang tag strip, designated generally by numeral 1, is formedfrom a suitable length of paper or cardboard having any desireddimensions, and, if desired, individual tag lengths 2 may be indicatedby'rounded portions 3, which, when individual tags are severed from thestrip as contemplated in the two machines previously referred to,provides neatly rounded corners for the individual tags.

The individual tickets ordinarily'require some attaching or securingmeans for fastening to the goods to be marked, staples or strings beingcommonly used. In the preferred embodiment illustrated, staples 4 aresecuredjto the individual tags closely adjasaid staples extendingapproximately per pendicular to the plane of the tickets and beingarranged in a line parallel to the edge of cent the edges thereof, theprongs 5 of the Serial No. 493,731.

which extend inwardly beyond the line of the staples.

In order that the said strips may be fed edge, thus placing the slitsaway from the staples or other attaching means so as to preventinterference by such attaching means with the feeding mechanisms of thepreviously referred to printing and severing machinesi As will beunderstood, the said slits 6 meet the apex of the adjacent roundedcorners as illustrated in the drawing. 7

It will be understood that the invention may be variously modified andembodied within the scope of the subjoined claims.

I claim as my invention:

l. A gang price tag strip comprising a series of tags provided withattaching means at one edge and'partially severed from each other byslits made from the other edge, and extending inwardly beyond the medialline of the strip to provide abutmentsfor engagement byfeedingmechanism.

2. An article of manufacture comprising a strip divided into equal tagwidths by aligned cusps along the opposite edges of the strip, anattaching device secured to each tag, the said devices having prongsarranged in alignment along one edge of the strip, and slits betweeneach two tags at the other edge.

3. A price tag strip comprising a series of tags provided with attachingstaples at one edge and partially severed from each other by slits madeat a distance back of the staple bearing edge and extending .to theother edge of the strip, uncut material being left between the slit andthe staple bearing edge.

4:. An article of manufacture compris-.

ing astrip divided into equaltag lengths by aligned cusps along theopposite edges of the strip, attaching staples along'oneedge of thestrip'having aligned prongs, said cusps along the stapled edge of thestrip extending inwardly beyond the line of prongs, and slits betweenthe tags extending inwardly from the points of the cusps along theunstapled edge toward the points of the cusps along the stapled edge ofthe tag, said slits providing abutments for engagement by feedingmechanism.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this5th day of November, 1930.

FREDERICK W. LAENCHER."

